street, n.Definitions

The Street is made for conversation.

The Street is a side-walk ballet always replete with new improvisations.

The Street is, along with their sidewalks (as the main public places of a city), the city's most vital organs.

The Street is apt to be a safe street when it is well-used. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

The Street is a space where loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda pop on stoops is integral to the public nature of city life. To promote them going to their own homes is like saying people at a banquet should give parties at home.

The Street is, along with the public square, that which attracts a crowd, is accessible to all social classes, and accounts for a scene of unplanned, informal, improvised encounters.

The Street is a space where, lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow.

The Street is enormously important in city planning. The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.